Snow fence



Ja'n. 4,1927, 1,612,972

J. H. GARDELS snow FENCE Filed April 23, 1925 gwuanm Jab/7 fi. 60/27 6/5 Patented Jan. 4, '1927. i

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. GARDELS, F HILDRETH, NEBRASKA.

SNOW FENCE.

Application filed April 23, 1925. Serial No. 25,443.

lhe object of my invention is to provide assembled on steel or concrete posts, thus a fence which will effectively prevent the providing a fence which is absolutely firedrifting of snow on roads, farm-yards, railproof, so that weeds and trash that may roads, etc, and to provide a fence for this gather against the fence may be burned and purpose which has the novel feature of bethe fence remain unharmed. The fence ing readily portable and easily erected, and may be very easily erected or removed when which also is fireproof. I attain these and required. It provides a snow break or fence other objects of my invention by the 0011- which is but slightly more expensive/than struction illustrated in the accompanying ordinary wire fence. It is also well adapt- W drawings, in which ed for use around stock yards and also for Fig. 1 is a front elevation of one form of use as a poultry fence. The fence is also my fence, and well adapted for use for the cribbing of ear Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through same corn, as it sheds snow, dirt, and moisture, on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. but allows air to circulate through the crib.

35 Like numerals designate like parts in each It also protects the corn from being eaten of the several views. stock and is fireproof if away from build- Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawlngs.

ings, I provide a fence consisting of longi- 7 That I claim is:

tudinally extending wires 2 with which. are l. A snow fence consisting of a wire fab- 90 interwoven the vertical or transverse wires ric having longitudinally and transversely 1, with a plain open mesh weave. 1 proextending wires interwoven in a plain weave vide flat metal strips 3, preferably of tin. of open mesh, flat metal strips interwoven of sufficient width to substantially fill the with the wires at spaced intervals to prospace between the adjacent parallel wires 2. vide intervening open spaces between adja- The metal strips 3 are threaded in and out cent longitudinal wires, said metal strips in- 7 alternately between pairs of vertical or tcrvening only between alternate pairs of the transverse wires 1, as shown in Fig. 1. longitudinal wires to permit wind to sweep Preferably, but two metal strips are providthrough portions of the fence and cause ed between each four horizontal wires leavsnow to drift against it. ing a space of one vertical mesh between the 2. A snow fence consisting of a wire fab- 7 metal strips. ric having longitudinally and transversely t will be noted that I provide spaces or extending wires interwoven in a plain weave open portions between adjacent longitudinal of open mesh, flat metal strips extending wires of the fence and that the metal strips parallel with the longitudinal wires and inintervene only between alternate pairs of the terwoven with the wire fabric, said metal 89 longitudinal wires, thus permitting the wind strips being alternated with an uncovered to sweep through the open portions of the strip of the wire fabric to provide open porfence and cause the snow to drift and lodge tions between adjacent longitudinal wires, against the fence. the metal strips intervening only between It is also within the contemplation of my alternate pairs of the longitudinal wires invention to provide a metal strip between which permit the wind to sweep between the each two longitudinal wires, thus forming a open portions of the fence and cause the fence which can also be used for inclosing snow to drift and lodge against the fence. poultry.

It is my intention that this fence shall be JOHN H. GARDELS. 

